But since anyone can act as Anonymous then the WBC claim was legit. I can put up a server, make myself a part of Anonymous, attempt to hack my server, leave Anonymous, then claim Anonymous tried to hack my server.
Well, yes and no.
Yes, you could do all of the above. And yes, you could make those claims. And yes, the press would probably pick up the story and run with it as written.
But No, it would not be Anonymous proper. And they would know it. And you would be in some serious deep shit. Anonymous is a community. Like any community, if you're in it, you know who else is in it. The two guys at the party who know the secret handshake.
WBC just tried this and it didn't work. So No, they will not get a horde of newfags bombing their server so they can countersue and make money and continue their nonsense that way.
But something tasty will happen - rest assured of that. Something will happen. It will require a measure of elegance that the mob cannot deliver. Because that's what they want. No. It will be something subtle and untraceable, done with the skill of a surgeon and the quiet stealth of a butterfly.
The most brilliant pranksters on the planet Earth have now been aroused. Remember WBC, when it happens, you DID ask for it.
This has always been my favorite article on 100% renewable energy. It's an algae biodiesel study done by Michael Briggs at the University of New Hampshire's physics department.
Had to use the wayback machine, UNH isn't hosting the page anymore. Anyways, it has always looked like an excellent proposal to me. It's almost too good to be true, but I can't find any faults with his numbers.
Likewise, you should pick the components you want in your PC and build your own. That way when you install your OS you get the added benefit of no bloatware.
I remember reading an article about a guy who was doing genetic algorithms with Xilinx chips, training them to recognize the words "stop" and "go" and set a line low or high accordingly. I can't find the article right now but I'll put in a better search later.
What he'd do is to say the word "stop" or "go" into a microphone and see what the circuit did. The genetic code was the array file input into the Xilinx chips, a string of binary data that his genetic routine would judge for fitness, splice, and retry.
He did several generations and eventually got a good working circuit. A series of ones and zeroes that recognized the words. It worked.
So he loaded the binary files into another board and it didn't work. Why? The genetic algorithm didn't view the circuits as digital. It was utilizing the gates as analog entities, each with it's unique characteristics to get the job done. When you move the code to another board it simply wouldn't work. There was more communication going on than the researcher's original notion imagined. He thought this was a binary exercise. Instead it turned out to be a subtle matter involving the shape of the response curves coming out of unique parts and electromagnetic field interaction. Nature didn't view this circuit as digital, it was more complex than that.
I just looked up the specs on the motherboard I bought last night and it appears I'm in luck. It's a Sabertooth P67.
Intel® P67 Express Chipset
2 xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports
(brown)
4 xSATA 3Gb/s ports (black)
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Support RAID 0,1,5,10
Marvell® PCIe SATA 6Gb/s controller
2 xSATA 6Gb/s ports (gray)
JMicron® JMB362 SATA controller
1 xPower eSATA 3Gb/s port (green)
1 xExternal SATA 3Gb/s port (red)
So use the Brown ports for boot drive and CD for install, and Grey ports for data drives once the OS loads the Marvell driver, I'm thinking. Ignore the Black ports.
No biggie.
Oh, and in related news Newegg just pulled this motherboard from their shelves. I'm probably the last human being on planet earth to buy one.
By "over time" they mean that every time a set of circumstances crop up for the bug to manifest, roll some dice. Eventually you'll get snake eyes and the bug will bite you. From this article:
"On its conference call to discuss the issue, Intel told me that it hasn’t been made aware of a single failure seen by end users. Intel expects that over 3 years of use it would see a failure rate of approximately 5 - 15% depending on usage model. Remember this problem isn’t a functional issue but rather one of those nasty statistical issues, so by nature it should take time to show up in large numbers (at the same time there should still be some very isolated incidents of failure early on)."
So it's not like the chip is dissolving or some such.
"If you've already built a Sandy Bridge system, fortunately, there are some obvious workarounds available. Most enthusiast-class motherboards these days ship with extra SATA ports driven by auxiliary SATA controller chips from third-party suppliers like Marvell, and those ports aren't at risk for this problem. As we've noted, the two 6Gbps SATA ports on the 6-series chipset aren't, either. For a great many users, sidestepping this problem should be as simple as moving their storage device connections to the other ports. Given the relatively strong performance that we've seen out of Intel's SATA 6Gbps controller, we'd recommending attaching any fast, primary storage devices like SSDs or 7,200-RPM drives to the 6Gbps SATA ports if possible. Other drives, like large and slow-rotating HDDs, should be fine on the third-party controllers. Just be careful to ensure that you have all the right drivers installed and the boot order in the BIOS set correctly before making the move, so you don't cause yourself the headache of an unbootable system."
So it's not the huge deal that it seemed to be at first. Your 6Gbps ports are fine. It's your 3Gbps ports that are pooched. But if your board has a secondary controller like the Marvell controller - just move your drives to those ports (or plunk down $20 bucks and get an ePCI SATA board) and Bob's your uncle.
That being said though - dammit. I JUST ordered one of these boards last night from Newegg. I've always been an AMD fan, but I figured just this once I'd try Intel since they've been making some really great cpus lately. Haven't upgraded in five years and BANG - this hits.
If you'd like to make some quick cash, go to Vegas and place a few bets. Then have me root for the team you'd like to lose.
I agree - they're still in the Matrix
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That's what I thought too. They were still in the matrix. How else could Smith move from one to the other? HE'S A FUCKING COMPUTER PROGRAM.
And it only makes sense. The mystery guy they refer to in the first Matrix who "freed the first of us" and could "reshape the matrix to how he wished". Remember him? When he freed the first of the resistance fighters, who was piloting a ship to catch them and keep them from drowning??? You've got a chicken-and-the-egg problem there. I thought it was a given that they were still in the matrix.
My third movie would have had Neo be the first guy to figure that out - the "outside world" is still the matrix. The matrix does nothing but generate realities to keep you from questioning where you are. And the reason why the matrix is doing this? What's the point?
Earth was destroyed in a war with the machines and the machines won. But they're not the bad guys. We got scared and fired first, nuked them and made the world inhospitable to humans. The machines hold no animosity towards us. The situation saddened them, they understand how we could be scared and do such a thing, and they don't hold it against us. In a way they think of us as parents and believe we are worth saving. So they made a colony ship to send the surviving humans to another habitable world. They don't want us to die, but they realize we can't live together because of human nature. But unfortunately it will take eons to make the trip. So they made a people farm, and a matrix to keep us from going bonkers on the long trip to our new home.
I know what you mean. Saw this really great movie in the 80's called Highlander. It's a good thing Hollywood isn't so corrupt and bankrupt of ideas as to attempt a sequel with that! I mean really, how dumb would that be? The tagline for the movie is "There can be only one!"
A sequel to that wouldn't make any sense at all. I'm so glad they never tried.
Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?
Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose we would have to discuss terms, of course...
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!
Churchill: Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.
Well what is fair? Racial discrimination clearly isn't, and we now have laws to enforce that. (Note that we needed laws to make that happen, which is to say that life in its unguarded state isn't fair).
But you can extend fairness to a ridiculous extreme just as easily. Would you go to a baseball game if the guy at bat could say, "I haven't hit the ball as much as the other team. Pitch slower so that it's fair."
Would you enjoy that? Of course not.
Part of the problem with this world is the "everybody who shows up gets a gold star" mentality. Would you want a brain surgeon operating on you that attended a pass/fail curriculum? Of course not.
That's how life is. Not fair. Some people will be better than you at your job. Some people will be paid more for knowing less (see: Managers).
You can give yourself an ulcer worrying about it, or you can accept it. And if you're unhappy in your current circumstance, then change it. Don't complain about fairness - it's an artificial concept. It doesn't exist in nature. Gazelles don't tell lions that it isn't fair for them to eat them. Wouldn't work. So my advice is, if that's how the system is - then work towards being a lion.
That's not what I'm suggesting at all. You've taken my notion to a ridiculous extreme. I didn't say sit in the lotus position and ignore absolutely everything.
What I am saying is that your own happiness and your own circumstance is something you can control. And the fates and fortunes of other people is outside of your control. So why waste time mashing sour grapes over what other people have? Why not concern yourself with the thing you can change - which is yourself?
If you want more, work for it. Don't whine about fairness - it doesn't exist.
In that particular case paying attention to what others are doing would be...concentrating on what you have.
It's not that you should be in some zen like state and ignore the world around you. In this particular instance this guy was making a fine living. He was happy, his job pleased him, he was okay.
Then suddenly some other person gets more money than and now he's unhappy. Now the exact same job that he had yesterday is somehow unsatisfactory.
I find that to be strange.
Nothing in his life has changed, and yet he is unhappy. I say concentrate on what you do have and get on with it. And ignore it if fortune smiles on someone else more broadly. How does that change your life any?
Don't concentrate on what other people have. Life isn't fair. Nobody said it would be. Thinking that it should be fair won't give you anything but an ulcer. Instead, concentrate on what you have. Your position, your skills, your pay.
If you aren't happy - leave. Get new skills, get a new job, get different pay.
Basing your happiness on what other people are doing is useless. Concern yourself with your own position. If you have enough, great. If you don't, work on it.
No it doesn't. All it does is give you a place to start research. If you observe A, and then B happens afterward, the very next thing you should do is come up with a falsifiable experiment that attempts to prove or disprove A caused B.
It's not a heuristic of anything because you can spend all day coming up with fallacies. Here's one. My alarm clock causes the sun to come up. One always happens after the other, right? So it's a heuristic, right? Wrong. It's speculation. Make a falsifiable experiment. Turn the alarm clock off and see if the sun still comes up. Test it. Then you have your heuristic.
Speculation isn't anything but speculation.
Getting back to the original topic, these jackasses who put this scam forward should be held personally responsible for every child that missed their vaccinations from the scare. It always amazes me when businesses will actually put profits ahead of human lives. Why we don't send people like this - or tobacco executives, or people who hide design flaws in cars - to jail for life is beyond me. Killing people for money should be an across-the-board kind of a thing. If someone pays someone else a few thousand to shoot someone it's first degree murder. But if you do it for the stockholders it's somehow okay.
g2ghpro (guitar synth to guitar hero pro) - has full multiplatform support (windows,linux,osx) so Guitar Synthesizers can be used for pro guitar mode in rock band 3. I think some bugs still need to be worked out, so feedback is welcome.
That is just plain stupid. If it has an effect on the natural world it can be measured. If it doesn't, it doesn't really matter.
Ok then. I want you to come up with a meter that measures love.
Love absolutely changes the world. But love could never be science. You can't measure it, can't get a test tube full of it to determine its properties, has no atomic weight. Some people say it isn't even real.
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But since anyone can act as Anonymous then the WBC claim was legit. I can put up a server, make myself a part of Anonymous, attempt to hack my server, leave Anonymous, then claim Anonymous tried to hack my server.
Well, yes and no.
Yes, you could do all of the above. And yes, you could make those claims. And yes, the press would probably pick up the story and run with it as written.
But No, it would not be Anonymous proper. And they would know it. And you would be in some serious deep shit. Anonymous is a community. Like any community, if you're in it, you know who else is in it. The two guys at the party who know the secret handshake.
WBC just tried this and it didn't work. So No, they will not get a horde of newfags bombing their server so they can countersue and make money and continue their nonsense that way.
But something tasty will happen - rest assured of that. Something will happen. It will require a measure of elegance that the mob cannot deliver. Because that's what they want. No. It will be something subtle and untraceable, done with the skill of a surgeon and the quiet stealth of a butterfly.
The most brilliant pranksters on the planet Earth have now been aroused. Remember WBC, when it happens, you DID ask for it.
This has always been my favorite article on 100% renewable energy. It's an algae biodiesel study done by Michael Briggs at the University of New Hampshire's physics department.
Here's a link to the story.
Had to use the wayback machine, UNH isn't hosting the page anymore. Anyways, it has always looked like an excellent proposal to me. It's almost too good to be true, but I can't find any faults with his numbers.
Can anyone here poke holes in this plan?
Likewise, you should pick the components you want in your PC and build your own. That way when you install your OS you get the added benefit of no bloatware.
Yeah, that's it! Thanks.
Ah, found some info on it I think.
I remember reading an article about a guy who was doing genetic algorithms with Xilinx chips, training them to recognize the words "stop" and "go" and set a line low or high accordingly. I can't find the article right now but I'll put in a better search later.
What he'd do is to say the word "stop" or "go" into a microphone and see what the circuit did. The genetic code was the array file input into the Xilinx chips, a string of binary data that his genetic routine would judge for fitness, splice, and retry.
He did several generations and eventually got a good working circuit. A series of ones and zeroes that recognized the words. It worked.
So he loaded the binary files into another board and it didn't work. Why? The genetic algorithm didn't view the circuits as digital. It was utilizing the gates as analog entities, each with it's unique characteristics to get the job done. When you move the code to another board it simply wouldn't work. There was more communication going on than the researcher's original notion imagined. He thought this was a binary exercise. Instead it turned out to be a subtle matter involving the shape of the response curves coming out of unique parts and electromagnetic field interaction. Nature didn't view this circuit as digital, it was more complex than that.
This article reminded me of that.
Something about letters from that era that are just so simply elegant. I love reading letters from that time.
Just wanted to say thank you for the PCI-E schooling. I didn't know very much about it until you posted.
Yup. That'd do it.
I just looked up the specs on the motherboard I bought last night and it appears I'm in luck. It's a Sabertooth P67.
Intel® P67 Express Chipset 2 xSATA 6.0 Gb/s ports (brown) 4 xSATA 3Gb/s ports (black) Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Support RAID 0,1,5,10 Marvell® PCIe SATA 6Gb/s controller 2 xSATA 6Gb/s ports (gray) JMicron® JMB362 SATA controller 1 xPower eSATA 3Gb/s port (green) 1 xExternal SATA 3Gb/s port (red)
So use the Brown ports for boot drive and CD for install, and Grey ports for data drives once the OS loads the Marvell driver, I'm thinking. Ignore the Black ports.
No biggie.
Oh, and in related news Newegg just pulled this motherboard from their shelves. I'm probably the last human being on planet earth to buy one.
By "over time" they mean that every time a set of circumstances crop up for the bug to manifest, roll some dice. Eventually you'll get snake eyes and the bug will bite you. From this article:
"On its conference call to discuss the issue, Intel told me that it hasn’t been made aware of a single failure seen by end users. Intel expects that over 3 years of use it would see a failure rate of approximately 5 - 15% depending on usage model. Remember this problem isn’t a functional issue but rather one of those nasty statistical issues, so by nature it should take time to show up in large numbers (at the same time there should still be some very isolated incidents of failure early on)."
So it's not like the chip is dissolving or some such.
On the good news front, from this article:
"If you've already built a Sandy Bridge system, fortunately, there are some obvious workarounds available. Most enthusiast-class motherboards these days ship with extra SATA ports driven by auxiliary SATA controller chips from third-party suppliers like Marvell, and those ports aren't at risk for this problem. As we've noted, the two 6Gbps SATA ports on the 6-series chipset aren't, either. For a great many users, sidestepping this problem should be as simple as moving their storage device connections to the other ports. Given the relatively strong performance that we've seen out of Intel's SATA 6Gbps controller, we'd recommending attaching any fast, primary storage devices like SSDs or 7,200-RPM drives to the 6Gbps SATA ports if possible. Other drives, like large and slow-rotating HDDs, should be fine on the third-party controllers. Just be careful to ensure that you have all the right drivers installed and the boot order in the BIOS set correctly before making the move, so you don't cause yourself the headache of an unbootable system."
So it's not the huge deal that it seemed to be at first. Your 6Gbps ports are fine. It's your 3Gbps ports that are pooched. But if your board has a secondary controller like the Marvell controller - just move your drives to those ports (or plunk down $20 bucks and get an ePCI SATA board) and Bob's your uncle.
That being said though - dammit. I JUST ordered one of these boards last night from Newegg. I've always been an AMD fan, but I figured just this once I'd try Intel since they've been making some really great cpus lately. Haven't upgraded in five years and BANG - this hits.
If you'd like to make some quick cash, go to Vegas and place a few bets. Then have me root for the team you'd like to lose.
That's exactly what I thought too! Good ol' RFC1149.
"I could label all theoretical physicists as stupid, since they too are choosing to believe things that they cannot prove, or see."
You could, but you would be wrong. I think you'll find that there are well defined experiments in this field.
There aren't any for religion. That's the difference.
Actually that movie exists already, pretty much. It's called The Thirteenth Floor.
That's what I thought too. They were still in the matrix. How else could Smith move from one to the other? HE'S A FUCKING COMPUTER PROGRAM.
And it only makes sense. The mystery guy they refer to in the first Matrix who "freed the first of us" and could "reshape the matrix to how he wished". Remember him? When he freed the first of the resistance fighters, who was piloting a ship to catch them and keep them from drowning??? You've got a chicken-and-the-egg problem there. I thought it was a given that they were still in the matrix.
My third movie would have had Neo be the first guy to figure that out - the "outside world" is still the matrix. The matrix does nothing but generate realities to keep you from questioning where you are. And the reason why the matrix is doing this? What's the point?
Earth was destroyed in a war with the machines and the machines won. But they're not the bad guys. We got scared and fired first, nuked them and made the world inhospitable to humans. The machines hold no animosity towards us. The situation saddened them, they understand how we could be scared and do such a thing, and they don't hold it against us. In a way they think of us as parents and believe we are worth saving. So they made a colony ship to send the surviving humans to another habitable world. They don't want us to die, but they realize we can't live together because of human nature. But unfortunately it will take eons to make the trip. So they made a people farm, and a matrix to keep us from going bonkers on the long trip to our new home.
I know what you mean. Saw this really great movie in the 80's called Highlander. It's a good thing Hollywood isn't so corrupt and bankrupt of ideas as to attempt a sequel with that! I mean really, how dumb would that be? The tagline for the movie is "There can be only one!"
A sequel to that wouldn't make any sense at all. I'm so glad they never tried.
PLEASE erase this post before someone from Hollywood reads it. PLEASE.
Winston Churchill and a socialite at a party:
Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?
Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose we would have to discuss terms, of course...
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!
Churchill: Madam, we’ve already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.
Well what is fair? Racial discrimination clearly isn't, and we now have laws to enforce that. (Note that we needed laws to make that happen, which is to say that life in its unguarded state isn't fair).
But you can extend fairness to a ridiculous extreme just as easily. Would you go to a baseball game if the guy at bat could say, "I haven't hit the ball as much as the other team. Pitch slower so that it's fair."
Would you enjoy that? Of course not.
Part of the problem with this world is the "everybody who shows up gets a gold star" mentality. Would you want a brain surgeon operating on you that attended a pass/fail curriculum? Of course not.
That's how life is. Not fair. Some people will be better than you at your job. Some people will be paid more for knowing less (see: Managers).
You can give yourself an ulcer worrying about it, or you can accept it. And if you're unhappy in your current circumstance, then change it. Don't complain about fairness - it's an artificial concept. It doesn't exist in nature. Gazelles don't tell lions that it isn't fair for them to eat them. Wouldn't work. So my advice is, if that's how the system is - then work towards being a lion.
That's not what I'm suggesting at all. You've taken my notion to a ridiculous extreme. I didn't say sit in the lotus position and ignore absolutely everything.
What I am saying is that your own happiness and your own circumstance is something you can control. And the fates and fortunes of other people is outside of your control. So why waste time mashing sour grapes over what other people have? Why not concern yourself with the thing you can change - which is yourself?
If you want more, work for it. Don't whine about fairness - it doesn't exist.
In that particular case paying attention to what others are doing would be...concentrating on what you have.
It's not that you should be in some zen like state and ignore the world around you. In this particular instance this guy was making a fine living. He was happy, his job pleased him, he was okay.
Then suddenly some other person gets more money than and now he's unhappy. Now the exact same job that he had yesterday is somehow unsatisfactory.
I find that to be strange.
Nothing in his life has changed, and yet he is unhappy. I say concentrate on what you do have and get on with it. And ignore it if fortune smiles on someone else more broadly. How does that change your life any?
Don't concentrate on what other people have. Life isn't fair. Nobody said it would be. Thinking that it should be fair won't give you anything but an ulcer. Instead, concentrate on what you have. Your position, your skills, your pay.
If you aren't happy - leave. Get new skills, get a new job, get different pay.
Basing your happiness on what other people are doing is useless. Concern yourself with your own position. If you have enough, great. If you don't, work on it.
No it doesn't. All it does is give you a place to start research. If you observe A, and then B happens afterward, the very next thing you should do is come up with a falsifiable experiment that attempts to prove or disprove A caused B.
It's not a heuristic of anything because you can spend all day coming up with fallacies. Here's one. My alarm clock causes the sun to come up. One always happens after the other, right? So it's a heuristic, right? Wrong. It's speculation. Make a falsifiable experiment. Turn the alarm clock off and see if the sun still comes up. Test it. Then you have your heuristic.
Speculation isn't anything but speculation.
Getting back to the original topic, these jackasses who put this scam forward should be held personally responsible for every child that missed their vaccinations from the scare. It always amazes me when businesses will actually put profits ahead of human lives. Why we don't send people like this - or tobacco executives, or people who hide design flaws in cars - to jail for life is beyond me. Killing people for money should be an across-the-board kind of a thing. If someone pays someone else a few thousand to shoot someone it's first degree murder. But if you do it for the stockholders it's somehow okay.
From the project page:
g2ghpro (guitar synth to guitar hero pro) - has full multiplatform support (windows,linux,osx) so Guitar Synthesizers can be used for pro guitar mode in rock band 3. I think some bugs still need to be worked out, so feedback is welcome.
That is just plain stupid. If it has an effect on the natural world it can be measured. If it doesn't, it doesn't really matter.
Ok then. I want you to come up with a meter that measures love.
Love absolutely changes the world. But love could never be science. You can't measure it, can't get a test tube full of it to determine its properties, has no atomic weight. Some people say it isn't even real.
And yet it changes the world.